Focusing on an area of the savannah in northern Ghana and southwestern Burkina Faso, Land, Mobility, and Belonging in West Africa explores how rural populations have secured, contested, and negotiated access to land and how they have organized their communities despite being constantly on the...

Focusing on the demands of the new innovative, sustainable and inclusive rural development paradigm, the monograph raises the discussion regarding new approaches and success factors that are vital in current rural socio-economic development and policy transformations. The bottom-up policymaking,...

Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: New Social Movements: Theories and Approaches -- Chapter 3: Social Movements as Drivers of Paradigm Innovations in Rural Development -- Chapter 4: Actors of New Rural Social Movements as Agents of Change -- Chapter 5: Rural Paradigm Shift and New Social...